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HENRY JAMES
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
HENRY JAMES
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a sc...
HENRY JAMES
So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
HENRY JAMES
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
HENRY JAMES
..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that ...
HENRY JAMES
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get...
HENRY JAMES
Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what...
HENRY JAMES
The Baroness found it amusing to go to tea; she dressed as if for dinner. The tea-table offered an a...
HENRY JAMES
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
HENRY JAMES
A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that�...
HENRY JAMES
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
HENRY JAMES
...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his da...
HENRY JAMES
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
HENRY JAMES
To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her sh...
HENRY JAMES
To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowl...
HENRY JAMES
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuit...
HENRY JAMES
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any...
HENRY JAMES
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that s...
HENRY JAMES
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played ...
HENRY JAMES
Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the windo...
HENRY JAMES
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES
I don't care about anything but you, and that's enough for the present. I want you to be happy--not ...
HENRY JAMES
I don’t think I pity her. She doesn’t strike me as a girl that suggests compassion. I think I en...
HENRY JAMES
You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish....
HENRY JAMES
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition ...
HENRY JAMES
Whatever life you lead you must put your soul in it--to make any sort of success in it; and from the...
HENRY JAMES
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everyt...
HENRY JAMES
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMES
Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never...
HENRY JAMES
She was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her fort...
HENRY JAMES
She is written in a foreign tongue.
HENRY JAMES
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
HENRY JAMES
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
HENRY JAMES
I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"S...
HENRY JAMES
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me,...
HENRY JAMES
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wak...
HENRY JAMES
One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES
He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.
HENRY JAMES
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agree...
HENRY JAMES
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
HENRY JAMES
[Leaves of Grass is] monstrous because it pretends to persuade the soul while it slights the intelle...
HENRY JAMES
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very ...
HENRY JAMES
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular so long...
HENRY JAMES
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES
Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
HENRY JAMES
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any stud...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known grou...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for t...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wi...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Life's to short for chess.
HENRY JAMES BYRON
Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wit...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always...
HENRY JAMES, JR.
We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of ...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries o...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a spec...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examinati...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations i...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the larg...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of ...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of whi...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that ...
HENRY JAMES SR.
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressiv...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civili...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities alo...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when i...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED
Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists...
JAMES HENRY BREASTED

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